The Elements Quiz. All the answers to these questions consist of the names of elements (remember chemistry, your periodic table etc?) and nothing else. I have indicated the number of letters for each answer and each element can be the correct answer more than once ... Hope you find them interesting ... 1. Kintsugi: In Japan, when a piece of ceramic or pottery is broken they do not throw the pieces away. They fix the item and then fill the cracks with _ _ _ _ (4) to give it a new lease of life. 2. The words plumber and plumb-line are derived from the Latin for an element which is a metal and which can cause severe poisoning when enough of is it ingested. This metal is _ _ _ _ (4). 3. Diamond, like graphite, is made completely of atoms of _ _ _ _ _ _ (6) and is the hardest naturally occurring material known. 4. One metallic element is especially important for keeping up levels of haemoglobin in our blood and preventing anaemia. Which is it? _ _ _ _ (4). 5. The expansion of this liquid metal is used to indicate changes in temperature in one type of non-digital thermometer. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (7). 6. Air (the Earths atmosphere) is composed of a mixture of gases. Which gas, in its element form, makes up the greatest percentage by volume of the total, which amounts to almost 79%? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (8). 7. Ozone (of Ozone Layer fame) is composed solely of which gaseous element? _ _ _ _ _ _ (6). 8. & 9. Water molecules are composed of three atoms comprising TWO elements. Which are they? _ _ _ _ _ _ (6) and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (8). 10. Which element (gaseous) is added to our water supply as a way of disinfection? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (8).
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 17:08:51 +0000
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